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Replacement of infected thoracic aortic prosthesis with a spiral composite vein graft
J H Palma1, W J Gomes, D R Almeida
1Department of Surgery, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. jhpalma.dcir@epm.br
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 16, 1998
Abstract:
We describe a case of a patient who had a ruptured aorta repaired by femorofemoral bypass with an interposition graft and subsequently had a graft infection. The patient was taken to operation and the old graft was removed. It was replaced by a spiral great saphenous vein graft. The patient has been followed up for 36 months with computed tomographic scanning, which has shown that the vein graft has not dilated.